Makajapingo is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Boven Saramacca Boven Saramacca is a resort in Suriname, located in the Sipaliwini District. Its population at the 2012 census was 1,427. The dominant geographical feature of this resort is the Saramacca River. The resort is mainly inhabited by Maroons of the M ...

(resort) in

Sipaliwini District Sipaliwini is the largest district of Suriname, located in the south. Sipaliwini is the only district that does not have a regional capital, as it is directly administered by the national government in Paramaribo. History Sipaliwini was created i ...

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. The village is inhabited by

Matawai people The Matawai (also ''Matuariërs'') are a tribe of Surinamese Maroons. The Matawai were originally part of the Saramaka, and signed a peace agreement with the Dutch colonists in 1762. The tribe split from the Saramaka, and in 1769, they were recogn ...

. Nearby towns and villages include

Pakka-Pakka Pakka-Pakka or Pakkapakka, also Pakkapakka 1 (right side river) and Pakkapakka 2 (left side), is a Maroon village in the rainforest of Boven Saramacca resort in Sipaliwini District in Suriname. The village is inhabited by Matawai people. The villa ...

(8.6 nm),

Moetoetoetabriki Moetoetoetabriki is a village in Boven Saramacca resort in Sipaliwini District in Suriname. The village is inhabited by Matawai people. Nearby towns and villages include Heidoti (2.0 nm), Kwattahede (1.4 nm), Pakka-Pakka (13.9 n ...

(7.0 nm),

Tabrikiekondre Tabrikiekondre is a village in Boven Saramacca municipality (resort) in Sipaliwini District in Suriname Suriname (; srn, Sranankondre or ), officially the Republic of Suriname ( nl, Republiek Suriname , srn, Ripolik fu Sranan), is a count ...

(3.2 nm), Stonkoe (3.2 nm) and

Warnakomoponafaja Warnakomoponafaja is a village in Boven Saramacca municipality (resort) in Sipaliwini District in Suriname. The name of the village means "the hare who arrived from the fire". When the village was founded, a fire was made near the hole of a hare, ...

(2.0 nm). The villages does not have a school or a clinic, but does have a church, and unlike most Matawai settlements, it is

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Matawai settlements Populated places in Sipaliwini District {{Suriname-geo-stub